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Nicknames such as “central business district” and “financial district” have long described the locations of business and major sources of revenue in America's downtowns.
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But as the post-pandemic world embraces hybrid work, reduces the frequency of in-office work, and increases the number of vacant downtown office towers, stakeholder groups centered around urban centers are , are beginning to focus on these conditions in favor of promoting more diverse ways of working. , and an active downtown.
Las Vegas leads the list of fastest-growing downtowns since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a cell phone tracking study by the University of Toronto's School of Urban Studies and the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Governmental Research. As of fall, it was the only downtown area tracked in the study that had more pedestrian traffic than it did in 2019, before the pandemic began.
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